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The Day I Met Tim Ferriss

I love goals. I’ve been setting them for years. I’ve got quite a few done, but many more loom over me spurning me forward. How I began setting goals is a somewhat vague recollection, but I’ll explain as best I can. I think that goals began to take focus between 12-18 years old. I wasn’t constantly setting goals and using visualization techniques, but I was making lists. I could go on about lists for thousands of words, and a little later down the line, I will. But for now, let’s just say I started making simple lists at 12. The freedom of a blank page and pen captivated me. What am I going to put on my list? What do I want to do? Both questions are also a very foundational element of goal setting—understanding the objective (goal). What is desired? For me the process of living list driven made me suited for making a list of goals. I believe setting goals and making lists is a skill like any other that can be developed and improved en route to future mastery. I continue making lists and setting goals and will likely until I cease to breathe.

Okay why all the goal rhetoric? “I get it you like lists.” What does any of this have to do with your catchy title? I’ll explain, don’t hasten to the headline and miss a chance to understand my intention of valuable takeaways sprinkled throughout a true story. I did meet Tim Ferriss, but I don’t think it would have happened without having that as a clearly defined goal on a list I made in 2012. No, though the meeting was unexpected and indeed fortuitous, I do not believe it was an accident. I think timing can suggest something is accidental, or ‘by chance’. But, looking at the broader scope of multitudes of simultaneous occurrences in visible and non-visible dimensions you can’t deny the power of intentions. Why so many big words in one sentence? It was my intention. Why did I get to meet Tim, and not perhaps have this goal go unrealized as words on a piece of paper? Intentions. It was something that I kept in my mind and intentionally gave focus to. I chose the outcome and had faith that it would happen one day. I’ve learned that forcing timing rarely works, and I’m working on allowing things to be serendipitous, intentionally. Okay, that’s one of my favorite words, don’t know if that’s apparent yet but I’ll lay off of it for the rest of this piece I promise.

I’ll include the text of a piece I’ve written on Medium here to continue the narrative, and I’ll add the YouTube video here once I’ve gotten the music added and it’s uploaded. The video will be #21 of the #52WkVideoChallenge and its taken even longer than any other not because of time conflicts but through more effort on making it a good use of 5-6 minutes of a viewer’s time. Making sure it’s concise and as good as I can do with my abilities right now. That being it’s done and here it is:

This story has both the accidental and the purposeful. A balance between dumb luck, and the willingness to act and commit. Here’s my piece from Medium: